Changing the date format from dd/mm/yyyy to ddmmyy in excel 2010

Hi

I have an 2010 excel file with 200 user details and their date of birth is populated in dd/mm/yyyy ( 29/06/2001)on one of the colums.
I want to convert this format into ddmmyy (290601) . This data is on colum H and if i go to the particular row and remove the / and 20, some other date populates.

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Repeat - use a custom format but enter the dates in whatever local date format you normally use.
This is simple. Right click the column (or select the cells), select format cells, select custom under category, type in "ddmmyy" as the format.

I assume default date format at your end is US date format i.e. mm/dd/yyyy so the dates what you get won't be recognized as dates. Remember that dates are treated as numbers by Excel behind the scene and in this case your dates look like dates but they are text strings.

To convert them to the desired format, try one of the suggested solutions.
If you place the formula in I2, you just need to copy it down and if you go for the VBA solution, you just need to run the code once to get all the dates in column H into the desired date format.

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lianne143Author Commented: 2016-10-04

Hi Subodh

Please post me step by step instructions and my Excel sheet is called data
All the 200 date of birth is on the colum H and it starts from H2 to H218
Thanks